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Date: 1788
"On feeling hearts she [Mercy] sheds celestial dew, / And breathes her spirit o'er th' enlighten'd few; / From soul to soul the spreading influence steals, / Till every breast the soft contagion feels."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1788
"These propensities gave the colour to her mind, before the passions began to exercise their tyrannic sway, and particularly pointed out those which the soil would have a tendency to nurse."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"These various movements of her mind were not commented on, nor were the luxuriant shoots restrained by culture."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"An extreme dislike took root in her mind; the sound of his name made her turn sick; but she forgot all, listening to Ann's cough, and supporting her languid frame."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"Their minds were shackled with a set of notions concerning propriety, the fitness of things for the world's eye, trammels which always hamper weak people."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"These images fill, nay, are too big for their narrow souls."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"Mary could not help thinking that in his company her mind expanded, as he always went below the surface. She increased her stock of ideas, and her taste was improved."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"The same warmth which determined her will make her repent; and sorrow, the rust of the mind, will never have a chance of being rubbed off by sensible conversation, or new-born affections of the heart."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"Such a crowd of thoughts all at once rushed into Mary's mind, that she in vain attempted to express the sentiments which were most predominant."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"Her heart longed to receive a new guest; there was a void in it: accustomed to have some one to love, she was alone, and comfortless, if not engrossed by a particular affection."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
